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Kobe Bryant is the third-best shooting guard in the league, according to a poll of general managers. The NBA.com annual GM survey, released on Wednesday, lists James Harden of the Houston Rockets as the top guard, with 63% of the vote. Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson is second with 18.5%, followed by Bryant in a tie with Stephen Curry (also with the Warriors) at 7.4% each. Curry technically starts at point guard for Golden State, but then Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant came in as the fifth-best shooting guard (3.7%). Bryant tied Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star LeBron James as the second choice to take a shot with the game on the line. Both received 7.7% of...

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Kobe Bryant is the third-best shooting guard in the league, according to a poll of general managers.
The NBA.com annual GM survey, released on Wednesday, lists James Harden of the Houston Rockets as the top guard, with 63% of the vote.
Golden State...

Within months after leaving Maryland as a junior in the spring of 2005, John Gilchrist realized he had made a mistake.
Sitting in his apartment in Rishon LeZion, a coastal town in Israel where he had begun what would become a nomadic professional...

Clippers Coach Doc Rivers acknowledged reports that players from his team and the Golden State Warriors engaged in a verbal confrontation in a hallway inside Staples Center after Game 7 of their first-round playoff series late Saturday night.
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Good news for the Lakers: Almost everybody on their team is in a contract year.
Bad news for the Lakers: Almost everybody on their team is in a contract year.
Such players have incentive to deliver with an added hunger, according to the long-held sports...

The guessing game took another turn Wednesday when it was revealed that Kobe Bryant would not play against Sacramento on Friday.
Bryant practiced for a second consecutive day and Steve Nash also took the court, but Bryant wasn't ready for game action.
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The Lakers spent $99.9 million in salary this season for a roster that went 45-37. Additionally, the team will pay $29.6 million in luxury taxes -- a total of $129.5 million to get into the playoffs and suffer a first-round sweep by the San Antonio Spurs....

Cleveland Cavaliers 120 - Lakers 118 (end of regulation)
Nick Young's three-point attempt with 9.9 seconds left in the game wouldn't fall, extinguishing a late Lakers' rally against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Instead, the Cavaliers hold on for a 120-118...

The Lakers are currently carrying the league-maximum 15 players on their roster, but that may not be the case for long.
Four players are signed to nonguaranteed contracts: Xavier Henry, Shawne Williams, Ryan Kelly and recent acquisition Kendall Marshall....

DALLAS — Shawne Williams was waived Monday, but the Lakers don't plan on filling his roster spot any time soon.
Unless, of course, another guard is injured.
The Lakers were down to 14 players, one below the NBA maximum, after cutting Williams before his...

Spurs 120, Lakers 89 (final)
The San Antonio Spurs dominated the Lakers in Game 3 of their first-round playoff matchup to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series with a 120-89 victory on Friday night at Staples Center.
The Lakers couldn't...

SALT LAKE CITY — This was supposed to be the easy part of the Lakers' schedule.
Simple, really. Get closer to .500 with a slew of games against teams already deeply embedded in draft lottery odds.
But the Lakers might be one of those lottery teams...

The Lakers waived veteran point guard Chris Duhon on Saturday, according to a team release.
Duhon would have earned $3.75 million for the coming season had the Lakers kept him under contract into July.
Instead, Duhon will receive $1.5 million of his...

Laker forward Xavier Henry left the game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night with a strained right knee, another in a long line of injuries to the team's dwindling list of players able to run the point.
Henry exited with 1:14 left in the first...

In another twist to an ever-worsening season, the Lakers are losing games and healthy bodies at almost identical rates.
Versatile reserve Xavier Henry was the latest to go down, sustaining a strained right knee Sunday against the Philadelphia 76ers and...

Add Xavier Henry to the Lakers' long list of injured point guards.
On Monday, Henry was diagnosed with a bone bruise and an "abnormality of the lateral meniscus" in his right knee.
Henry left with a little over a minute left in the first...

It has come to this for the Lakers:
Kendall Marshall, barely two weeks removed from the NBA D-League, will start at point guard Friday against Utah as the Lakers try to end a six-game losing streak.
His primary qualification for starting?
"He's...

As has been well reported, the Lakers are extremely short-handed at point guard.
On Sunday, the visiting Denver Nuggets have chosen to leave veteran point Andre Miller at home.
Miller was suspended two games by the team for conduct detrimental to the...

The injured, flagging Lakers have been pulled for yet another nationally televised game.
On Thursday, the NBA announced the Lakers' visit to Chicago on Jan. 20, to play the Derrick Rose-less Bulls, will no longer be aired on TNT.
Instead, Dwight...

The Lakers woke up on New Year's Day closer to last place than a playoff spot in the Western Conference.
And their new starting point guard appears to be Kendall Marshall.
Jordan Farmar will miss at least four weeks after sustaining another tear in...